Overview
- Identifies the major areas of education reform
- Presents analyses of the successes and failures
- Identifies common features and it identifies transferable features
- All the authors have been active in the field in many different cultural settings
- There is an analysis of any implications of reform aimed particularly at countries seeking major change
Part of the book series: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects (EDAP, volume 9)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce more productive, more harmonious and healthier citizens. Yet, in every setting there is deep dissatisfaction with the overall performance of education and there are major moves towards reform, sometimes superficial but more often fundamental. These reform processes have had only moderate and very uneven success. Too often they are episodic, reflecting a short-term approach which is frequently changed for the latest enthusiasm or the most recent administration.
In Asia and the Pacific countries many systems are in the process of construction or reconstruction. Can we learn from the experiences of others? Given the multiplicity of efforts at reform, and the variety of situations for reform, there may well be lessons we can learn from each other’s efforts and each others failures and successes. This book features contributions from experienced researchers who have worked in many different settings and bring their own insights to attack this universal problem.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Secondary Education at the Crossroads
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives Relevant to the Asia-Pacific Region
Editors: Phillip Hughes
Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4668-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4667-4Published: 18 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7166-8Published: 19 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4668-1Published: 23 September 2006
Series ISSN: 1573-5397
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 272
Topics: Curriculum Studies